The Strategic Leader's Roadmap, Revised and Updated Edition by Singh Harbir;Useem Michael;

Author:Singh, Harbir;Useem, Michael;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wharton School Press

In summary, integrating strategy and leadership, learning to become a strategic leader, ensuring strategic fit, conveying strategic intent, layering leadership, and deciding deliberatively should be seen, in our view, as an indivisible bundle—each component dependent on the others and all to be applied together. Yet conveying strategic intent from the top only works if each leadership layer is ready to lead in its own domain, and the leadership in each tier depends in turn on its cohort’s ability to decide deliberatively. Taken together, these guiding principles for the integration of strategy and leadership constitute an essential roadmap, and all should be built into programs for strengthening a manager’s or an organization’s strategic leadership.

In part III, we look at the dynamic ways that strategy and leadership can flow from and reinforce one another. Both halves are essential, and the absence of either can prove ruinous. Firms that have well-developed strategies but underdeveloped leaders are likely to fall short, and firms with well-developed leaders but underdeveloped strategies are prone to face the same. We want neither facet to be deficient, and that calls for an enterprise to ensure both its strategy and its leadership are well developed and mutually aligned, neither one falling short or pulling against the other.

We focus on three challenges for ensuring that business strategy and company leadership can and do work together:

How enterprise executives actively transform their strategy into a business reality

How company leaders sometimes redirect their business strategy

How a new business strategy sometimes calls for new company leaders

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